377.每日英文读诵

【每日英文读诵，未来更加出众】
377.每日英文读诵-
【How to win friends and influence people - 158】
"And this mode, which I at first put on with some violence to natural
inclination, became at length so easy, and so habitual to me, that
perhaps for these fifty years past no one has ever heard a
dogmatical expression escape me. And to this habit (after my character of integrity) I think it principally owing that I had earned so
much weight with my fellow citizens when I proposed new
institutions, or alterations in the old, and so much influence in public
councils when I became a member; for I was but a bad speaker,
never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words,
hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points."
How do Ben Franklin's methods work in business? Let's take two
examples.
Katherine A, Allred of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, is an industrial
engineering supervisor for a yarn-processing plant. She told one of
our classes how she handled a sensitive problem before and after
taking our training:
"Part of my responsibility," she reported, "deals with setting up and
maintaining incentive systems and standards for our operators so
they can make more money by producing more yarn. The system we
were using had worked fine when we had only two or three different
types of yarn, but recently we had expanded our inventory and
capabilities to enable us to run more than twelve different varieties.